Minutus

short answer:
when the symptoms indicate.

longer answer:
no one knows the full story. Some observations that come to mind at the
moment...

1. a parallel may be drawn between chronic miasms and acute epidemic
illness, in so far as each individual may present a fragmentary or partial
picture.
2. the symptoms as recorded in Chronic Diseases are very large in number,
perpaps unmanageably so.
3. Putting 1 and 2 together, this suggests that many patients present
partial pictures of their maismatic distrubance which produces a case that
might fit several miasmatic remedies.
4. to address this in a practical manner it makes sense to confine oneself
to the leaders of the miasmatic remedies, which have been established by
successive generations of homeopaths.
5 the case should be considered in terms of development over time, looking
for progression, periodic re-occurrence, new symptoms developing after
trivial causes.

etc...

Andrew
Andrew

Surely one would use this type of data as confirmatory are than remedy
finding observation!

Correction:

Surely one would use this type of data as confirmatory rather than a remedy
finding observation!

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You 'believe' this cannot be relied upon for my argument.
You asked where to find it, so I gave it, and now you are coming up with
this.
But OK there many places more to show tat Hahnemann considers constitution:
aphorism 15, 81, 136, also read his materia medica Pura lecture on
Pulsatilla.
You said aphorism 5 appears to contradict everything else written in the
Organon about how
to consider a case.
But every major aphorism which speaks of the totality of the symptoms refers
back to aphorism 5: (7,18 ,24 ) !
Let me tell you Hahnemann is not contradicting himself in aphorism 5 and 6,
he is building things logical up.
Hahnemann included the qualities of the natural constitutional as well as
the symptom changes brought on by the disease state. You can not separate
the individual constitution from the disease which is suffers.
Without the constitutional generals, aetiology and miasms of aphorism 5, the
totality of the symptoms is incomplete.

regards,

Piet Guijt